962 private quotes tagged business

“In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.” — David Mamet

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“In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.” — Evan Davis

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“It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.” — Nicki Minaj

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“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.” — Christopher Walken

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“I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.” — Meryl Streep

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“Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.” — Emma Roberts

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“Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.” — James Buchan

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“Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.” — Edna Ferber

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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.” — Clara Barton

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“The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.” — Russell Baker

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“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” — Peter Fonda

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“The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.” — V. S. Naipaul

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“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“I'm not really in the excuse business.” — Bill Parcells

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“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.” — Twyla Tharp

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“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.” — Kit Bond

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“In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.” — Roger Stone

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“And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.” — Shirley Manson

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“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.” — Russell Baker

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“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.” — Twyla Tharp

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“I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.” — Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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“Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.” — Marvin Bower

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